Linux wifi driver for Thinkpad T400

My girlfriend bought a new Thinkpad T400 R29 half month ago. ThinkWiki just told the wireless hardware must be Intel 5100/5300 or Intel WiMax 5150/5350. However, I failed to setup the driver.

Windows just told it’s a realtek on it. But I didn’t believe. I don’t believe because it’s too crazy for a Thinkpad to not use the Intel wireless chip.

Then things on the easy way.

  1. Google, then confirm that there’s no native driver for linux.
  2. copy the inf and sys files from windows xp. rtl8191se
  3. ndiswrapper. HOWTO in Chinese
  4. no wlan found
  5. remove the installed modules, revert all changes
  6. realtek driver for windows 2k, which is suggested by the archlinux wiki
  7. ndisgtk (GUI for ndiswrapper)
  8. found wlan0 without restart computer

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on September 27th, 2009 | No Comments »